The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 19, 1941, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
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Illv ilie way, Just finished a bpok
Sunday I think every man and woman
ghoul'1 read. It Is "This Above All'
aml from the pen of Nrlc Knight. If
vou want to see the real England during
war time, by all means read this
hook We have hoard somo folkH with
John Hull sympathies belittle this
magnificent novel, but* we read the
book after we had noted what outstanding
critics had to say in praise
0f it It's the truost picture of what
,1s happening in England we have ever
read and that echoes what noted review
i rs have to say.
Since tne war started, the cosi of
living in the United States has gone
up ? lt von per cent. It is rising about
ono aiul one-half per cent a month,
and by spring it will have risen twenty
per (flit.
Thai's Leon i Henderson, federal
price administrator, speaking. Ho
ought to know. Prices are his bus$
iness.
rutting the statement In reverse, It
means that people whose income is
fixed will have suffered a virtual i
twenty percent cut In Income by
iprinir, because their fixed Income will
then buy just that much less. The
cut will probably be even greater because
next year taxes are almost certain
to increase.
! !Vo clearer demonstration could be
given of the necessity that congress
grab hold of this problem with firm
hands, and put every curb on Inflation
1 that ingenuity can contrive and firmness
enforce.
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Beiore the current worldwld.e conflagration
has become history It is estimated
that- the United States will
have spent well over one-hundred fifty
bittton for national defense. It's gok?HsifcVi
be terribly hard to convince the
V average person that in order to meet
I die bill the standard of living "For
Americans is not going to take an
awful licking.
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Wo havo lived through throe ages.
The flrat one when each home had a
parlor that wus only opened on Sunday
and when company came. The
second age came When the parlor was
made into a living room. The third
and preaont age is the one in which
no one atuya home long enough to use
more than a bedroom and the breakfast
room.
If IHtler's blitzkrieg tochnique has
demonstrated nothing else to the
world, it is that modern war demands
young commanders. William Shlrer
in his "Berlin Diary" tells how Germany's
young generals in September.
1939, led their divisions into Poland.
The German comrfnahder-in-chief was
the first to swini'tho Vistula after bis
troops advanced to Warsaw. The
sooner the British and U. S. armies
get this kind of young generalship the
better.
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Most persons sooner or later catch
up with the real Christmas spirit. Some
few, of course, never do. For them
the approach of the Christmas season
is a bore and an annoyance at least
they go through elaborate steps to
pretend it is. The reason for. the pretense
is that they* have not understood,
or at least have not taken the
pains to put Jn practice, the inevitable
fact that Christmas is without real
significance unless the element of
making somebody else happy enters
into it. You can not have Christmas
all by yourself or with any merely
perfunctory ceremony of slipping the
proper people the proper gifts and, receiving
the proper gifts ffom the
proper people in return. To be real.
Christmas season must harbor within
itself a complete acknowledgement,
each of us for ourselves alone, that
I wo have definitely contributed in some
concrete way, little or big. to the
further happiness of uomo deserving
person. *
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Just to demonstrate how fleeting
notoriety in: What was the name of
[ the fellow who purachuted to the lop
| of that flat mountain for the sake of
publicity *
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NI no are dead down in Indiana because
a man loaded with rum was uuafruid
to take to the highway with
his car,
And "unafraid" is an appropriate
word to Indicate that the treatment
meted out by the law to drunken drivers
had made little impression upon
this particular person. Had lie not
been arrested for.a similar offense
only a week before and let off with
a tine. What deterrent is there in a
mora, fine when a man is hopped up
with hooch?
It is claimed that in those sections
of the country where the law treats
the drunken driver as a vicious person
and not some poor weakling
who must bo humored when he takes
to his cups the offense has been large- '
ly eradicated. He that as it may, the
law should treat such person for just
l what ho is, a fellow who will keep
away form the wheel if he knows that
he will be adequately punished if ho
takes hold of it. A man would probably
have to get too drunk to stand
before he would forget the penalty for
drunken driving^ if that penalty were
serious enough to Impress hint.
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In our business we deal heavily wfth
rumors?that is,- we hear an amazing
variety of them and as a matter of
policy check on most of them. Because
of that experience wo do not have a
particularly high regard for rumors as
a source of accurate information. We
have learned that nearly all rumors
are badly out of line. As a consequence
a newspaper attitudo toward
rumor is quite the opposite of
that of many persons. How many do
you know who just love to believe
every fool rumor that comes along?
They worry and waver this way and
that and can reel off more "important
developments" in five minutes than a
trained news-gatherer could track
down in five weeks. The difference is
that news is supposed to have at least
some slight basis fact, whereas the
farther rumors run the wilder they
get.
SPORT POTPURRI
(By Skipper)
Heard a swell basketball game last
Saturday night via radio. Wisconsin
versus Notre Dame And the Badger
state . five, -national champs, gunning
for their 19th straight wLu?and they
got it 43 to 35.
Had dinner with Mine Host Slade
at 'the Court Inn Sunday and it was
one perfect menu from an iced fruit
cup, through some hot consomme,
through some fine turkey and trimmings,
salads, corn fritters and maple
syrup, topping off wtih apple pie a la
mode and a beeker of aromatic coffee.
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Art sure is a lucky hotel maestro
in that he has B. C. Hellnuind, a culinary
and cookery expert for 50 years
in Charge of his kitchen as chef. Hellmund
worked for the late Harrt Marvin
in Columbia some 30 years ago
and was at the Hobkirk when Art was
there For fceveral years.
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Cyril Harrison led the Yellowjackets
OWNERS OF TRUCKS AND
BUSES ASKED TO REPORT
The South Carolina Highway Traffic.
Ad v isory Commit too to tho war department
today made ait urgent appeal
to owners of all trucks and buses to
complete and return to tho commit too
tho questionnaire tarda forwarded to
thout sometime .ago.
0 This questionnaire Is a | a it of a stirvoy
being made to determine the exlout
lu which privately owned trucks
and buses could b{> called upon in the
event of an emergency overtaxing
government-owned facilities.
The traffic Advisory committee for
?>outh Carolina Is composed of three
.officials of tho State Highway Department,
C. H. McMillan,'State Highway
Engineer. A. W. Hohlen, Director of
the Motor Vehicle Division and K. F.
Mason. Captain of tho State Highway
Patrol
This committee, after a meeting today
issued tho following appeal:
"Tho evouts of tho last ten days
have made It Imperative for every
owner of a truck or bus to cooperate a
hundred per cent in tills survey and
complete tho questionnaire cards and
j ot urn them immediately to tho address
in Columbia shown on the cards.
To" date only 71.6 per cent of the cards
for South Carolina have been returned
and one hundred per cent return is
imperative. This is a one hundred
per cent war and ono hundred per cent
cooperation from evory citizen is
needed in this truck and bus survey as
well as all other defense efforts."
to a 5 to 4 win over the Ramblers at
the Seaboard polo arena Sunday. Harrison
scored four goals, his final poke
coming in the last ehukker.
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Harrison Is asking the polo riders
to-be at the sceno of action in sufficient
time to get the guilds started &u I
time, which is 3 o'clock.
We are unable to understand why
the polo fans do not like the Seaboard
field. Perhaps some time In
the future when the field can he en-1
closed by an attractive fence with
parking spaces marked off. some
bleacher sections and an added entrance
provided, It will be more popular.
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The news that Lieutenant Heath has
been assigned to Shaw field at Sumter
is pleasing to this corner. Lieutenant
.Heath happens to be Ben. who worked
with his old man on Camden publicity
on a number of occasions.
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The football news of the week involves
the cancelling of the Rose
J^owl game,, also the East-West game
at Frisco. The cancellation was purely
for defense . purposes. It is very
likely the games will be played at
pome inland location. The Rose
Bowl game could be played at Durham
and while the Duke bowl seats about
half of the number which can be
accommodated in the Rose Bowl, the
game would attract much attention.
The expected happened at Chicago
Sunday when a powerhouse Bear team
.crushed Green Boy in the western
playoff. The Bears meet New York
Giants for the national title.
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Apropos of that Bears-Packer game
the icy slippery field, according to
pone other than the Chicago sport
writers messed up -the famous Isbel to
Ilutson passing attack and without
that the Packers were helpless. The
Hears possess great power in ground
attack.
EXHIBITS INTERESTING TABLE
DECORATION AT GARDEN CLUB
The blue ribbon Christmas centerpiece
entered at the Camden Garden
Club when it met at the home of the
Misses Leila and Charlotte Shannon
was owned by Mrs. K. C. VonTrosckow
and was presented to her by a
friend in Berlin in 192J?, and has beeh
replenished and used each year for
thirteen years wherever they lived?
in Holland. Yugoslavia. Canada and
now in Camden.
Spruce sprays, cedar and other
evergreens from the base, berries and
holly and mistletoe, lichens and simulated
toadstools, slivered or sliver
pine cones and leaves and holly and
red berries furnish color, and from
the red candle topping a large pine
cone the whole arrangement is covered
by a. spider web of angel's hair
?a spleen glass product?and the
figure of a Christmas angel?The
Miuchener Kindl?holding a small red
candle, nestles under the bow of goldtinsel-ribbon
which keeps the candle
in place. The whole is mounted on
a hand-carved tablot from the Dutch
East_Indles. I
COURT HOUSE TO OBSERVE '
. TWO DAYS AND A HALF
James H. Clyburn, clerk of court,
and also custodian of the court house,
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announces that all offices of the court
house will close at ono o'clock Wednesday
afternoon, December 24, and
will remain closed Thursday and Friday,
December 25 and 26, and will
re-open on Saturday, December 27.
This is in order that the various of-;
fleers may observe the Christmas holidays.
Banks To Observe Two Days
Following their usual custom Jhe
two banks of Camden announce that
they will close two days?Thursday
and Friday, December 25 and 26. Tln-y
urge the public to bear these dates in
mind and do your banking business
early.
The first thing . to do when you
notice the odor of burning insulation
is to disconnect one of the battery
terminals. The short circuit can be
hunted later. ,. I
Citizens March To Enroll In
Fight To Save Democracy
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Rev. Jefferson \V. Hoykin. pastor of
the Mt. Moriah Baptist church lias
been named as chairman of tho colored
section of the ,registration for civilian
defense. His committee workers
are Dr. J. 1'. Pickett. Dr. Thomas, Jiihmio
Dibble, Orof M. Mdonna, A. It.
Collins, and J. K. Marshall. Chairman
Roykin plans on having tho entire city
and county taken care of by bis workers.
The committee will have tho assistance
of school teachers and other
groups.
. At Illaney tho white' registration
will be under the direction of a committee
headed by J. I). Bailey who has
workers Jessie T. Itoss, J. C. Blckloy,
Dr. W. D. Grigsby, J. D. Watson, C. L\
Young and B. K. Rose.
Mrs. John C. Brewer is chairman
of the committee at Kershaw. Names
of tho committee workers were not
available this week but will be announced
next week. Also next week
will bring the announcement of tho
committee at Bethune.
Colonel Von Tresckow, county director
of the registration program has -?
urged ull clergymen, leuders of clubs
and other organizations.'Hto call the
attention of their followers and members
to the program now under way
and urge all civilians to, register.
In tho list of men who have joined
the colors and who are serving their
country at this time, recently appearing
in this paper the names of William
W. Bates, Jr. and Ben W. Heath,
\yere unintentionally omitted. Mr.
Bates, u son of Mr. and Mrs. Williuifl
Bates, Sr. of tho Cedars and tho Pines
is at Fort Benning but his headquarters
are at Edgewood arsenal in Maryland.
Mr. Heath is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank II. Heath of ibis city and
is siatfoned at Shaw field as an aeronaut
icu 1 t eh nlcian.
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LIQUID. TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS
You've Asked for Jesse James. Well,
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Here He Is In A Brand New Picture!
ROY ROGERS
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Dlractad by Joseph Knne
TONIGHT!
"Go West Young Lady
PENNY 8INQLET0N '
ANN MILLER
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GREETINGS
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ClirUtmua Wyulnl And
a* the glad chimes
tiny out wo loin In
the general gladness
lo wUh you and yours
a more loyous and
bount'.tul' Chrlilmai
than efer.
For yvur patronage
we are deeply gratelul.
and we renew
our pledge ol lull
service lor the future.
OUTLOOK SHOP
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We'd like very mucti to send each
|| of you a gift to show our appreciation
of your friendship and patron|
ego during the year.
'X As this is impossible, we take this
;| opportunity to wish you all a very
Merry Christmas.
M-K COFFEE SHOP
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Christmasl That glorious season of seasons which
draws the soul out of bondage in spite of binding i\
withes and cutting cords, enabling the spirit to
soar upwards whence the melody has descended!
May that Peace of Spirit which is our divine heri- 4\
laga be yours in full measure this Yuletide season, \
with al] the material joys that make life abundantly j irz
, worth while. - * J - - ~
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